US Patent Issued to AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR on Dec. 16 for "Rotary toggle mechanism for landing gear system" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,163, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR Co. INC. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Rotary toggle mechanism for landing gear system" was invented by Aaron John Vincent (Kernersville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for activating and deactivating an emergency landing gear system in an aircraft include a rotary toggle mechanism that actuates a switch. When the switch is actuated, the emergency landing gear system is activated and the operation of one or more other aircraft systems may be modified accordingly. The rotary toggle mechanism may be placed in three different states: a ready state, an active state, and a r...